Gardening in Style

If you're like me, you're out in the garden in your oldest clothes, jeans and a sweatshirt, or shorts, a tee and a baseball hat.  But that's not for everybody.  So Kara Buttimer came up with some pretty stylish togs for the gardening set when she started her new business, Angela's Garden.  The hat pictured above comes with matching lanolin-infused lambskin gloves; a cotton canvas apron with big pockets for seed packets, garden tools, etc; and a multi-purpose tote bag with seven outside pockets and elastic cords to hold tools in place, three large inside pockets, and even two bottle holders.  Everything's machine washable, too.  Aside from the blue swirl pattern pictured here, there's a pink floral collection, a black and white toile collection, and separate gloves, aprons, and hats in different colors and styles. All of the cotton canvas items are SPF-37, so you can work outside in the sun with a little less worry.

If you have daughters, nieces, or grand-daughters, how could you resist the bumblebee collection, above right?  It also comes in blue "crazy circles" and pink floral.

You can find these items at many local garden centers; at Amazon.com: the Pink Stripe Gardening Hat, and apron; the children's collection at: the online Discovery Channel Store, melange4women.com and soon at the online store of the New York Botanical Garden.  An added plus is that Kara donates a portion of all profits to Save the Children.

And all of you guy gardeners out there -- your wife or girlfriend might really like something like this.

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